Day 64

After sleeping like 12 hours, I seem a person again. After the crazy day that we had yesterday we’ll separate from the others. Eloy, Lucy and Marc are going to other mountains, but as we are not sure about the road conditions and I’m still tired (and the foot is hurting) we decide to ride to Abottabad, halfway to Islamabad.

The morning ride is really nice, we have to cross just some more rivers and sand slides, but it’s not a big deal. Even we cross some little rivers with me on the Bonnie! Tià does a great job, because it’s not an easy road with a loaded motorbike!

Last views from the Pakistani mountains…

Then we leave behind the mountains; now the road is fine, but the traffic is crazy. You find cows, motorbikes everywhere, cars in the wrong direction, beautiful trucks… everytime that we have to cross a city is a nightmare. We are stuck sweating and surrounded by other vehicles hooting their horns all the time. A bit stressful situation.

Finally we manage to arrive to Abottabad. The city is well known throughout Pakistan for its pleasant weather, high-standard educational institutions and for hosting the Pakistan Military Academy. However for the foreigners it’s just known due to sad events. On 2th May 2011, Abbottabad gained worldwide attention when Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in his compound in the city. In February 2012, nine months after bin Laden was killed, Pakistani authorities demolished the compound where Bin Laden had lived for years. We just see it as another city in Pakistan with its normal people living in it.